What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Calvin TrillinThere's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
Calvin TrillinAnybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
Calvin TrillinThe way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
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